He is the villain of my story and I thought naming him after a character behind an iron mask would be a fitting poetic choice. Once again none of this is meant to be neutral, nor meant to convince others. This is my story, unfiltered, on text. This is what I am on an emotional level translated into text.

No you shouldn't. No matter what people may say or what I may say I am just reminiscing a completely different game. The Duelyst of today is a different game and if you came to enjoy it, no one will stop you.

I don't know why I keep getting portrayed as the evil guy that wants to take Duelyst down. I am not. There used to be a game I liked and this is my story of it. This is my goodbye to it, the last thing on my list I had to do before I moved on. I wrote this to pour my emotions to text, to translate what it felt like so others would maybe get a glimpse of my passion.

But as I read more and more comments from the thread and am met with anger I realise that I failed. I have nothing against the game as it is right now.

There were multiple units on board almost always which gave players more options and a more complex board states.

The consistency in draws allowed you to build a deck and use the deck as a whole instead of using the hand you were dealt with.

Having a deck with a lot of low cost cards allowed you to have a variety of combinations which resulted in more potential plays.

An example to the last point would be having a hand of 4 different 2-drops at 4 mana meant you have 6 possible plays that completely use your mana, but having a hand with different 4 drops only gives you 4 options.

Well I don't know why the cards in the Vanar deck look like fodder to you but I assume you are specifically talking about the middle Abyssian deck and not the other two. But half of the deck was built around the idea that Abyssian had really powerful early spells that you wanted to use multiple times hence why Twilight Sorcerer and Alcuin Loremaster is there.

Zyx is another person who has played this game for a really long time and what he said is actually correct. I unfortunately do not have example decks to give here as I couldn't build a sufficient collection for all 6 factions back then, but I do have examples for what Abyssian decks looked like:

The part about the 4 drops wasn't true, in fact Emerald Rejuvenator was in almost every deck. I can show you a couple decklists I have from 2-draw times to give a bit more insight as to how decks were built back then:

I mean I have played duelyst for over 2 years so I won't force you to try it or anything but if you want to listen to my perspective or learn about the differences between both games feel free to pm me and I can answer all of the questions you have.

You need to play more duelyst to understand the core of its design philosophy, by sharing your frustration with others that went through similar experiences you too can become a part of the community. It can be losing a game to a 1/10 meltdown proc, the enemy getting the exact random card they needed from l'kian or getting insulted by other players.